For one thing, you have the opportunity in science fiction shows to do things with stories - address issues and ideas -… — Tim Russ Copy Share Image
Engineering is the application of scientific principles toward practical ends. If the engineering isn't practical, it's bad engineering. — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
The brain, knowing that a person can't live forever in this world, rationalizes a future, or other-dimensional, world in which immortality is… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
“In the hallowed tradition of squishy doughball liberals, I believe that science, reason, kindness, and understanding—maybe a little food—can set the world… — Ellen Meloy Copy Share Image
“I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art,… — K Lee Lerner Copy Share Image
I'm not religious in the normal sense. I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to… — James Agee Copy Share Image
Environmental science is telling us a lot about our future and what it could look like, whether we're talking about global warming… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
We need to be very thoughtful about how we propose to spend the money that NASA does have for space exploration. And… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
The chief instrument of American statistics is the census, which should accomplish a two-fold object. It should serve the country by making… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
I took biology in high school and didn't like it at all. It was focused on memorization. ... I didn't appreciate that… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Through my scientific work I have come to believe more and more strongly that the physical universe is put together with an… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Through a lot of scientific and left-hemisphere thinking in the last 400 years, we've separated ourselves from nature, as if we were… — Tiffany Shlain Copy Share Image
It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
Those in science perform research, have it reviewed by their peers, publish the results, and believe the answer should be obvious. — Bill Foster Copy Share Image
“phenomenon has reappeared in a more troubling form with the holy alliance between the believers and what they can borrow or steal… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
...the emergent capabilities bursting forth from the revolutionary advances in the life sciences are about to make us the principal agent of… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I sort of feel that climate change will be solved by science. I just feel instinctively that we will find a way… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
For both art and the historical sciences are modes of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence comes directly into play. — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
“The scientific community thrives on probabilities, working theories and fact-based hypothesis that have resulted in the advances we have made in fields… — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
I changed my headlights the other day. I put in strobe lights instead! Now when I drive at night, it looks like… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
“all questions were once spiritual. Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called on to fill in the gaps… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Comedy's about things the way they are. It's about the world as it is, not the world as we would like it… — Ben Miller Copy Share Image
I like science fiction. I am quite a technologically kind of up-to-date person. I like seeing what the new developments are. — Asa Butterfield Copy Share Image
“If researchers seek only the kinds of order with which Westerners are today familiar, they will miss, or reject as disorder, all… — David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some… — John Pople Copy Share Image
In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which… — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a rocket science to know that if Joe Teti has a rifle, and a round to go… — Joe Teti Copy Share Image
Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy. — Erik Adigard Copy Share Image
Expose every belief to the light of reason, discourse, facts, scientific observations; question everything, be sceptical because this is the only chance… — James Randi Copy Share Image
Go on, fair Science; soon to thee Shall Nature yield her idle boast; Her vulgar lingers formed a tree, But thou hast… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a… — Judy Biggert Copy Share Image
“The Blues are a simple music and I’m a simple man. But the Blues aren’t a science, the Blues can’t be broken… — Johnny Ferreira Copy Share Image
He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image